Israeli armor rolls into Lebanon in June 1982.

Beirut is bombed by Israeli forces during the summer of 1982.

The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) resists Israeli attacks in Lebanon.

After more than a decade, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) leave their headquarters in Beirut. Yasser Arafat had been forced out of Lebanon, following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon some three months before.

The funeral of Bachir Gemayel in Beirut, Lebanon. Gemayel, a Maronite Christian and senior member of the Phalange party, had been elected president of Lebanon, but was killed in a bomb attack on 14 September 1982 before he could be sworn in. The bomb had been planted in the Beirut headquarters of the Phalangist by Habib Tanious Shartouni, a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. To revenge Gemayel's death, Christian Phalangists caused a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut.

Palestinian woman crying after the three-day massacre by Christian Phalangist militia in Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

90 year old Hada Nouri found at the side of the road, his cane at his side, killed by Christian Phalangist militia in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

Bodies of Palestinian victims after a three-day massacre by Christian Phalangist militia in Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

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